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The Spencer Foundation's Small Research Grants program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets up to $50,000 for projects ranging from one to five years. We accept applications three times per year.
This program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, method, or location. Our goal for this program is to support rigorous, intellectually ambitious and technically sound research that is relevant to the most pressing questions and compelling opportunities in education.
Amount: up to $50,000 for projects ranging from one to five years
Deadlines:
- Applications Open: Late January, 2023
- Full Proposal Deadline: Early April, 2023
The Spencer Foundation's Racial Equity Research Grants program supports education research projects that will contribute to understanding and ameliorating racial inequality in education. We are interested in funding studies that aim to understand and disrupt the reproduction and deepening of inequality in education, and which seek to (re)imagine and make new forms of equitable education. Thus, we are interested in research projects that seek to envision educational opportunities in a multiplicity of education systems, levels, settings, and developmental ranges and that reach beyond documenting conditions and paradigms that contribute to persistent racial inequalities.
Their goal for this program is to support rigorous, intellectually ambitious, and technically sound research that is relevant to the most pressing questions and compelling opportunities in relation to racial equity in education. In this cycle of funding, we will continue to fund scholarships focused on a range of communities and issues with respect to equity. However, we want to especially encourage proposals that focus on Indigenous education and scholarship focused on issues of equity in international contexts.
As with other Spencer grant programs, this program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not required to be developed around a particular research topic, discipline, design, method, or geographic location.
Amount: For projects ranging from one to five years with budgets up to $75,000.
Deadlines:
- Applications Open: Mid-February, 2023
- Intent to Apply Form Deadline: Mid-May, 2023
- Full Proposal Deadline: Mid-June, 2023
The William T. Grant Foundation's Research Grants on Reducing Inequality program supports research to build, test, or increase understanding of programs, policies, or practices to reduce inequality in the academic, social, behavioral, or economic outcomes of young people ages 5-25 in the United States. We prioritize studies that aim to reduce inequalities that exist along dimensions of race, ethnicity, economic standing, language minority status, or immigrant origins.
Their focus on reducing inequality grew out of our view that research can do more than help us understand the problem of inequality—it can generate effective responses. They believe that it is time to build stronger bodies of knowledge on how to reduce inequality in the United States and to move beyond the mounting research evidence about the scope, causes, and consequences of inequality.
Their research interests center on studies that examine ways to reduce inequality in youth outcomes. They welcome descriptive studies that clarify mechanisms for reducing inequality or elucidate how or why a specific program, policy, or practice operates to reduce inequality. They also welcome intervention studies that examine attempts to reduce inequality. Finally, they welcome studies that improve the measurement of inequality in ways that can enhance the work of researchers, practitioners, or policymakers.
Amount: $100,000 to $600,000 over 2-3 years, including up to 15% indirect costs
Deadline: The online application is currently closed. The next deadline for applications is May 3, 2023.
The William T. Grant Foundation's Research Grants on Reducing Inequality program supports research on strategies to improve the use of research evidence in ways that benefit young people ages 5-25 in the United States. They want to know what it takes to produce useful research evidence, what it takes to get research used, and what happens when research is used. They welcome letters of inquiry for studies that pursue one of these broad aims.
This program supports research on strategies to improve the use of research evidence in ways that benefit young people ages 5-25 in the United States. They welcome descriptive studies that reveal the strategies, mechanisms, or conditions for improving research use, as well as evaluations of deliberate efforts to increase routine and beneficial uses of research in decision-making.
They invite studies from a range of disciplines, fields, and methods, and we encourage investigations into various youth-serving systems, including justice, housing, child welfare, mental health, and education. Previous studies have drawn on conceptual and empirical work from political science, communication science, knowledge mobilization, implementation science, and organizational psychology, among other areas.
Amount: $100,000 to $1,000,000 over 2-4 years, including up to 15% indirect costs
Deadline: The online application is now closed. The next deadline for applications is May 3, 2023.
Federal
The Department of Defense (DoD) Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E)) seeks innovative applications on mechanisms to implement and research the effectiveness of STEM education, outreach, and/or workforce initiative programs, here on referred to as STEM activities. This is a continuous NFO open announcement. Amendments to this NFO will be posted to Grants.gov if they occur. Amendments will detail requirements for white paper submissions, and select white paper submissions will be invited to submit a full application.
Activities include, but are not limited to:
(1) STEM Education and Outreach
(2) Support for STEM Education at Two-Year Institutions/Community Colleges (2YI/CCs)
(3) Manufacturing Engineering Education Program
(4) Education and Workforce Development aligned to the DoD Critical Technology Areas
(5) Enhanced Civics Education
(6) STEM Scholarship Programs
(7) Strategic Partnerships
(8) Program Evaluations and Assessments
(9) Data Analytics and Visualizations
(10) Activities aligned to the DoD STEM Strategic Plan1
(11) Other NDEP Congressional Initiatives and Programs
In response to this NFO, applicants may be asked for a mandatory white paper submission, emailed to osd.dodstem@mail.mil. The use of the white paper is intended to determine which efforts are of merit preparatory to submission of a full application as described in Section IV. Applicants will be selected from the white paper submissions to be invited by the Government via email to submit a full application on Grants.gov for evaluation and possible award consideration. White papers that fail to address the areas listed in the Program Description of the NFO amendment or Industry Day/Opportunity Day announcement will not be evaluated and will not receive an invitation to submit a full technical application.
The submission of a white paper is dependent on the NFO amendment or Industry Day/Opportunity Day announcement. In addition to the submission requirements outlined in Section IV, all responses should address items in the specific NFO amendment or Industry Day/Opportunity Day announcement.
Amount: Varies
Deadline: Open/Continuous
The Department of Defense's Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) program announced an FOA specifically seeking STEM education and outreach projects that address scientific and technical areas identified in the following thrust areas. Project scope may range in size and complexity. While not a formal requirement or program focus of this FOA, applicants are strongly encouraged to consider under-represented and under-served populations including women and minorities in project plans. Special audience priority areas may include, but not be limited to, military-connected students, veteran initiatives, and education systems integral to DAF science and technology.
AFOSR STEM topic areas include:
• Engineering and Complex Systems
• Information and Networks
• Physical Sciences
• Chemistry and Biological Sciences
STEM interests include a broad range of STEM educational and training opportunities for career and workforce development, including but not limited to:
• Internships for veterans and underrepresented groups in STEM
• Professional development opportunities
• Programs to stimulate analytical/thinking skills
• Development of educational resources
• STEM education outreach activities
• Education and community engagement workshops
• Target age groups may require different levels of educational tools
• Coordinating and partnering with activities and organizations that support DAF research areas
Amount:
Applicants may submit proposals for 1 award per academic year. Awards may not exceed $50,000 and are subject to the availability of funds. Pending program evaluation review, awarded proposals may be renewed for the initial funding request, for up to 3 years.
Full Proposal Deadline: Friday, April 14, 2023 at 11:59PM EST
Each NEA Research Lab will design a transdisciplinary research agenda, conduct project activities to execute that agenda, and prepare and disseminate reports and other products or services that will contribute substantively to a wider understanding of one of the following research areas of special interest to the NEA:
1. Measuring the Impacts of the Arts:
a. On U.S. Economic Growth, and/or Innovation
b. On Cognition and Learning
c. On Health and Wellness for Individuals
2. Monitoring and Improving Systems:
a. Community Health and/or Revitalization
b. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in the Arts
c. Other Aspects of the Arts Ecology
These research areas correspond with priority topics and related questions identified in the NEA’s research agenda for FY 2022-2026. Applicants are strongly urged to consult the agenda for detailed descriptions of each priority topic and for related sample questions.
NEA Research Labs serve as “hubs” or centers of excellence in the domain of interest. Each NEA Research Lab will develop a pipeline of projects or products, including a website while conducting at least one major study.
The NEA Research Labs program requires a confirmed partnership between the official applicant organization and a nonprofit arts organization at the time of application. The nonprofit arts organization is expected to contribute substantially to the NEA Research Lab. NEA Research Labs are also required to develop and maintain a technical working group, including representatives from partner organizations and other experts in the field or a related field, to offer feedback to the NEA Research Lab on key project activities and deliverables.
Amount: Grants will range from $100,000 to $150,000, based on the availability of funding. Grants cannot exceed 50% of the total cost of the project. All grants require a nonfederal cost share/match of at least 1 to 1.
Deadline:
- Part 1 - Submit to Grants.gov March 27, 2023 at 11:59PM, EST
- Part 2 - Submit to Applicant Portal March 30 - April 6, 2023 at 11:59PM EST
An organization may submit one proposal per submission window.
Amount: Varies
Deadlines: Submission Window Date(s) (due by 5PM submitter's local time):
- January 09, 2023 - March 13, 2023
- March 14, 2023 - June 26, 2023
- June 27, 2023 - October 20, 2023
The National Science Foundation's Scholarships in STEM Network, through this solicitation, seeks to foster a network of S-STEM stakeholders and further develop the infrastructure needed to generate and disseminate new knowledge, successful practices, and effective design principles arising from NSF S-STEM projects nationwide. The ultimate vision of the legislation governing the S-STEM parent program (and of the current S-STEM-Net solicitation) is that all Americans, regardless of economic status, should be able to contribute to the American innovation economy if they so desire.
To support collaboration within the S-STEM network, NSF will fund several S-STEM Research Hubs (S-STEM-Hub). The S-STEM Network (S-STEM-Net) will collaborate to create synergies and sustain a robust national ecosystem consisting of multi-sector partners supporting domestic low-income STEM students in achieving their career goals, while also ensuring access, inclusion, and adaptability to changing learning needs. The Hubs will investigate evolving barriers to the success of this student population. It will also disseminate the context and circumstances by which interventions and practices that support graduation of domestic low-income students (both undergraduate and graduate) pursuing careers in STEM are successful.
The target audience for this dissemination effort is the community of higher education institutions, faculty, scholars, researchers and evaluators, local and regional organizations, industry, and other nonprofit, federal, state, and local agencies concerned with the success of domestic low-income STEM students in the United States.
Amount: Maximum of $3 million (up to $3 million over a period of up to five years per S-STEM-Hub) will be awarded to support up to five (5) S-STEM-Hubs for a total investment of $15 million.
Deadline: Full Proposal due on March 29, 2023 by 5PM (submitter's local time
The National Science Foundation's Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier: Core Research (FW-HTF) program announced a funding opportunity. The Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier (FW-HTF) program is one mechanism by which NSF is responding to the challenges and opportunities for the future of jobs and work. The overarching vision of this program is to support multi-disciplinary research to sustain economic competitiveness, to promote worker well-being, lifelong and pervasive learning, and quality of life, and to illuminate the emerging social and economic context and drivers of innovations that are shaping the future of jobs and work.
For the purposes of this solicitation, work is defined as mental or physical activity to achieve income, profit, or other tangible benefits. A proposal for a research grant in this program must focus on advancing fundamental understanding of future work and work outcomes for workers and society. Proposals must clearly define the work and work context addressed by the research. Technological innovations should be integrated with advances in the learning sciences, research on adult learning and workforce training, and social, behavioral, and economic science perspectives. Potential results should contribute to fundamental advances in optimizing the human-technology team, the science and technology of future workforce development and education, work environments, and positive work outcomes for workers and society at large. Proposals are encouraged that are oriented toward the future of work at the human technology frontier or that examine dramatic changes in the utilization of technologies. Proposals may either consider novel technologies or address how technological use is changing, within the context of work.
A proposal for a research grant in this program must focus on advancing fundamental understanding of future work, and potential improvements to work and task design, workplaces, workforce preparation, or work outcomes for human workers and society. It must be inter-disciplinary or convergent research that addresses the human and societal dimensions as well as the technological innovation and the potential impact on future work. In doing so, the research should make significant contributions to both intellectual merit and broader impact. Achieving this goal requires integration and convergence of disciplines across cognitive and behavioral science, computer science, economic science, engineering, education, learning sciences, research on adult learning and workforce training, and the social sciences. A convergent perspective is essential to understand and shape long-term social and economic drivers, so that advanced technology will strengthen the social fabric. A convergent perspective also provides insights into worker education and re-skilling, so that the benefits of emerging technology can be conferred upon both current and future workers.
Amount: Up to 25 research awards program accepts projects that span a wide range of budget sizes. Anticipated total funding amount is $30 million.
Deadline: March 30, 2023 (due by 5PM submitter's local time)
This FOA is specifically seeking STEM education and outreach projects that address scientific and technical areas identified in the following thrust areas. Project scope may range in size and complexity. While not a formal requirement or program focus of this FOA, applicants are strongly encouraged to consider under-represented and under-served populations, including women and minorities, in project plans. Special audience priority areas may include, but not be limited to, military-connected students, veteran initiatives, and education systems integral to naval science and technology.
Specific items to be addressed are:
- STEM interests in cybersecurity include:
- Increasing cyber awareness
- Promoting Cybersecurity as a profession.
The focus should be on leveraging smart mobile devices to educate and promote cybersecurity awareness for students in Grades 9 through 12. Solutions that can be used across the two major platforms (Android and iOS) are encouraged.
Proposed research should:
- Promote thinking, analyzing, and solving cyber problems
- Allow for flexibility and creativity in the student interactions
- Be illustrative of cybersecurity professionals
- Examine how students think about cyber problems to further improve cyber training and education
- Scale up to the national level
Proposed research that may be considered outside the scope of this thrust area includes simple enhancements to existing platforms and broadcast tutorials, such as material on websites and videos.
Amount: Varies
Deadline: March 31, 2023 (Friday), 5PM ET
The Department of Navy (DON) Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM), Education and Workforce Program announced a funding opportunity. This FOA is for STEM education programs and activities, which is formal or informal education that is primarily focused on physical and natural sciences, technology, engineering, social sciences, and mathematics disciplines, topics, or issues (including environmental science education or stewardship).
STEM education programs and activities that could be supported by this FOA include one or more of the following as the primary objective:
- Develop learners’ knowledge, skill, or interest in STEM.
- Attract students to pursue certifications, licenses, or degrees (two-year degrees through post-doctoral degrees) or careers in STEM fields.
- Provide growth and research opportunities for post-secondary, college, and graduate students in STEM fields, such as working with researchers or conducting research that is primarily intended to further education.
- Improve mentor/educator (K-12 pre-service or in-service, post-secondary, and informal) quality in STEM areas.
- Improve or expand the capacity of institutions to promote or foster STEM fields.
This FOA will not consider applications for research, with the exception of those whose primary purpose is intended to further education (as described in the third bullet above) and that are not expected to generate intellectual property. Efforts for research, including those supporting STEM, should be submitted under the current fiscal year Long Range BAA.
Amount: Up to 8 grants with a maximum of $200,000 per year for up to 3 years
Deadlines:
- White Paper Inquiries and Questions April 07, 2023
- White Papers must be received no later than April 14, 2023 at 5:00 PM Eastern Time
- Invited Application Inquiries and Questions August 25, 2023
- Invited Applications must be received September 01, 2023 at 5:00 PM Eastern Time
The STEM Ed PRF Program encourages proposals that support postdoctoral experiences for those holding doctorates in STEM Education (e.g., Mathematics Education, Science Education), STEM, Education, and related disciplines who have career interests in STEM education research.
Examples of Professional Development Activities:
To successfully conceptualize, design, and execute studies capable of making contributions to knowledge in STEM teaching and learning, broadening participation, and workforce development, investigators and their teams typically require a wide range of knowledge, skills, expertise, and experiences. Examples of relevant activities include but are not limited to:
- Connecting with new or broadening existing professional networks
- Gaining teaching experience or experience with grant writing
- Deepening knowledge of subject-matter literature
- Examining interdisciplinary perspectives
- Operationalizing new research questions and articulating relevant theories of change
- Developing additional expertise in study design, research methods, and data analysis techniques
- Augmenting expertise aligned with changing educational practices
- Synthesizing existing research findings
- Collecting, managing, documenting, and archiving data to facilitate replication and reproducibility studies and secondary analyses
Examples of Research Topics:
The STEM Ed PRF Program invites proposals with a wide range of disciplinary perspectives and welcomes fundamental research proposals across the three research areas: STEM learning and learning environments, broadening participation in STEM, and STEM workforce development. The following list of research topic clusters is neither exhaustive nor mutually exclusive, and the program is open to other topic clusters that advance fundamental knowledge across the three research areas:
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM
- Factors at the neural, cognitive, institutional, structural, organizational, societal, and systemic levels that affect STEM education and/or the STEMworkforce
- STEM teaching and learning in PreK-12, undergraduate, graduate, workplace, and/or informal contexts
- Research on technology-enabled learning
- STEM education policy research and
- Research that builds on and expands the foundations for evaluating STEM education and/or STEM workforce development initiatives
Amount:
- Anticipated Type of Award: Standard Grant
- Estimated Number of Awards: 8 to 10
- Anticipated Funding Amount: Pending availability of funds, NSF anticipates approximately $2,500,000 will be available for the FY 2023 competition.
Deadline: Full Proposal Deadline(s): April 11, 2023 (due by 5PM submitter's local time)
Examples of Professional Development Activities:
To successfully conceptualize, design, and execute studies capable of making contributions to knowledge in STEM teaching and learning, broadening participation, and workforce development, investigators and their teams typically require a wide range of knowledge, skills, expertise, and experiences. Examples of relevant professional development activities include but are not limited to:
- Connecting with new or broadening existing professional networks
- Gaining teaching experience or experience with grant writing
- Deepening knowledge of subject-matter literature
- Examining interdisciplinary perspectives
- Operationalizing new research questions and articulating relevant theories of change
- Developing additional expertise in study design, research methods, and data analysis techniques
- Augmenting expertise aligned with changing educational practices
- Synthesizing existing research findings
- Collecting, managing, documenting, and archiving data to facilitate replication and reproducibility studies and secondary analyses
Examples of Research Topics
The STEM Ed PRF Program invites proposals with a wide range of disciplinary perspectives and welcomes fundamental research proposals across the three research areas: STEM learning and learning environments, broadening participation in STEM, and STEM workforce development. The following list of research topic clusters is neither exhaustive nor mutually exclusive, and the program is open to other topic clusters that advance fundamental knowledge across the three research areas:
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM
- Factors at the neural, cognitive, institutional, structural, organizational, societal, and systemic levels that affect STEM education and/or the STEM workforce
- STEM teaching and learning in PreK-12, undergraduate, graduate, workplace, and/or informal contexts
- Research on technology-enabled learning
- STEM education policy research and
- Research that builds on and expands the foundations for evaluating STEM education and/or STEM workforce development initiatives
Amount:
- Anticipated Type of Award: Standard Grant or Continuing Grant
- Estimated Number of Awards: 2 to 4
- Anticipated Funding Amount: $2,500,000
- Subject to availability of funds and the quality of proposals received.
Full Proposal Deadline(s): April 28, 2023 (due by 5PM submitter's local time)
The U.S. Department of Defense U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (ARI) announces the ARI FY18-23 Broad Agency Announcement for Basic, Applied, and Advanced Scientific Research. This Broad Agency Announcement, which sets forth research areas of interest to the United States Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, is issued under the provisions of paragraph 6.102(d)(2) of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), which provides for the competitive selection of proposals. Proposals submitted in response to this BAA and selected for the award are considered to be the result of full and open competition and in full compliance with the provisions of Public Law 98-369 (The Competition in Contracting Act of 1984) and subsequent amendments. The U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences is the Army's lead agency for the conduct of research, development, and analyses for the improvement of Army readiness and performance via research advances and applications of the behavioral and social sciences that address personnel, organization, training, and leader development issues. Programs funded under this BAA include basic research, applied research, and advanced technology development that can improve human performance and Army readiness.
Those contemplating submission of a proposal are encouraged to contact the ARI Technical Point of Contact (TPOC) for the respective topic area cited in the BAA. If the R&D warrants further inquiry and funding is available, submission of a proposal will be entertained. The recommended three-step sequence is (1) telephone call or e-mail inquiry to the ARI TPOC or responsible ARI Manager, (2) white paper submission, (3) full proposal submission. Awards may be made in the form of contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements. Proposals are sought from educational institutions, non-profit/not-for-profit organizations, and commercial organizations, domestic or foreign, for research and development (R&D) in those areas specified in the BAA.
Amount: Varies
Deadline: April 29, 2023
This solicitation offers two broad tracks for proposals in pursuit of the aforementioned goals:
- The Technology Translation (PFI-TT) track offers an NSF-funded researcher the opportunity to translate her or his prior NSF-funded research results in any field of science or engineering into technological innovations with promising commercial potential and societal impact. PFI-TT supports commercial potential demonstration projects for academic research outputs in any NSF-funded science and engineering discipline. This demonstration is achieved through proof-of-concept, prototyping, technology development and/or scale-up work. Concurrently, students and postdoctoral researchers who participate in PFI-TT projects receive education and leadership training in innovation and entrepreneurship. Successful PFI-TT projects generate technology-driven commercialization outcomes that address societal needs.
- The Research Partnerships (PFI-RP) track seeks to achieve the same goals as the PFI-TT track by supporting instead complex, multi-faceted technology development projects that are typically beyond the scope of a single researcher or institution and require a multi-organizational, interdisciplinary, synergistic collaboration. A PFI-RP project requires the creation of partnerships between academic researchers and third-party organizations such as industry, non-academic research organizations, federal laboratories, public or non-profit technology transfer organizations or other universities. Such partnerships are needed to conduct use-inspired research on a stand-alone, larger project towards commercialization and societal impact. In the absence of such synergistic partnership the project’s likelihood for success would be minimal.
The intended outcomes of both PFI-TT and PFI-RP tracks are: a) the development and commercialization of new intellectual property derived from NSF-funded research outputs; b) the creation of new or broader collaborations with industry (including increased corporate sponsored research); c) the licensing of NSF-funded research outputs to third party corporations or to start-up companies founded by a PFI team; and d) the training of future leaders in innovation and entrepreneurship.
Anticipated Type of Award: Standard Grant or Continuing Grant
Estimated Number of Awards: 25 to 55
- PFI-TT projects will be funded for up to $550,000 for 18-24 months per award; approximately 15-35 awards are anticipated. PFI-RP projects will be funded for up to $1,000,000 for 36 months; approximately 10-20 awards are anticipated.
Anticipated Total Funding Amount: $30 million
Full Proposal Deadlines (due by 5PM submitter's local time):
- May 02, 2023
- First Tuesday in May, Annually Thereafter
- September 05, 2023
- First Tuesday in September, Annually Thereafter
- January 02, 2024
- First Tuesday in January, Annually Thereafter
The National Science Foundation's Racial Equity in STEM Education (EHR Racial Equity) Program solicitation aligns with the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR) long-standing investments in the development of a diverse and well-prepared public and workforce, which was recently reinforced in the NSF Vision: "A nation that leads the world in science and engineering research and innovation, to the benefit of all, without barriers to participation," p. 9, NSF 2022-2026 Strategic Plan. The NSF Strategic Plan focuses on ensuring that U.S. research is an inclusive enterprise that benefits from the talent of all sectors of American society – a research enterprise that incorporates the rich demographic and geographic diversity of the nation. The strategic plan recognizes that the more people who engage in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) research and the more diverse their backgrounds, the richer the range of questions asked. The result is a greater breadth of discovery and more creative solutions to societal challenges.
Collectively, proposals funded by this solicitation will: (1) substantively contribute to institutionalizing effective research-based practices, policies, and outcomes in STEM environments for those who experience inequities caused by systemic racism and the broader community; (2) advance scholarship and promote racial equity in STEM in ways that expand the array of epistemologies, perspectives, ideas, theoretical and methodological approaches that NSF funds; and (3) further diversify project leadership (PIs and co-PIs) and institutions funded by NSF.
Each proposal should include a rigorous plan to generate knowledge and/or evidence-based practice via fundamental or applied research. Projects may focus on, but are not limited to:
- building theory; developing research, evaluation, and assessment methods; conducting pilot projects and feasibility studies;
- testing approaches and interventions;
- assessing the potential, efficacy, effectiveness, and scalability of approaches and interventions;
- changing institutional, organizational, and structural practices and policies;
- establishing, cultivating, and assessing authentic partnerships with communities impacted by systemic racism; conducting syntheses, meta-syntheses, meta-analyses, and systematic literature reviews;
- convening conferences that explore a theory, topic, method, or issue related to the program goals in order to drive research and practice forward; and/or
- focusing on affective, behavioral, cultural, social components, and implications.
Prospective PIs are encouraged to send a one-page concept paper to EHRRacialEquity@nsf.gov in advance of submitting a proposal.
Award Information:
- Anticipated Type of Award: Standard Grant or Continuing Grant
- Estimated Number of Awards: 15 to 35
- Awards may be up to five years in duration.
Amount (total available funding): $15,000,000 to $25,000,000
- The anticipated annual program budget includes new and continuing grants.
- Estimated program budget and number of awards are subject to the availability of funds.
Deadline (due by 5 p.m. submitter's local time):
solicitation with a forthcoming deadline in the calendar year 2023 to align with the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 (Public Law. 117-167). Section 10393 of this Act authorizes the Director to make changes in the maximum scholarship amount and length of scholarship support for low-income students in STEM fields. However, no changes are anticipated in a student's eligibility definition.
The current S-STEM solicitation NSF 22-527 supports domestic undergraduate and graduate low-income students with academic ability, talent, or potential to pursue successful careers in
promising S-STEM eligible fields. Ultimately, the S-STEM program seeks to increase the number of low-income students who graduate with a S-STEM eligible degree and contribute to the American innovation economy with their STEM knowledge. As specified in the current solicitation, the S-STEM scholarship should go towards covering the institutional Cost of
Attendance (COA) which includes expenses a student is expected to incur to attend the institution: not only tuition and fees but room and board, textbooks, supplies, transportation,
etc. Scholarship amounts are determined by the unmet need of each individual student, calculated by the institution's Office of Financial Aid with the formula defined in the solicitation.
All questions related to this DCL should be directed to the cognizant program directors listed below.
Amount: Varies
Deadline: Rolling basis (reach out to NSF staff above for funding opportunities)
- Advancing the science of reproducibility and replicability. Understanding current practices around reproducibility and replicability, including ways to measure reproducibility and replicability, what reproduction and replication mean in practice, the right degree of replicability to target, quantitative measures of progress to understand the effectiveness of interventions to improve reproducibility and replicability, and exploration of reasons why studies may fail to replicate.
- Research infrastructure for reproducibility and replicability. Developing and facilitating the adoption of cyberinfrastructure tools and/or research methods that enable the use of reproducible and replicable practices across one or more science and engineering communities.
- Educational efforts to build a scientific culture that supports reproducibility and replicability. Enabling training in science and engineering communities to identify and encourage best practices for reproducibility and replicability, providing community-building and institutional support, and supporting broad public outreach about rigor, reproducibility, and replicability in science.
Investigators who wish to submit proposals on any of these topics, or others related to advancing reproducibility and replicability in research, are encouraged to reach out to programs and program officers to discuss the fit of their ideas to existing funding opportunities.
Amount: Varies
Deadline: Rolling basis (reach out to NSF programs and program officers to discuss the fit of their ideas to existing funding opportunities)
The National Science Foundation supports creative, novel, and transformative research on new approaches to advancing formal and informal education, broadening participation, and strengthening workforce development in all areas of STEM, including applications of new and rapidly evolving technology. Blockchain technology is based on the concept of a distributed ledger, where copies of data contained in the ledger are distributed and stored across multiple nodes. In the world of decentralized finance, this technology is used to operate the networks underlying cryptocurrency markets.
Successful projects should research and/or promote awareness, knowledge, and interest in at least one STEM discipline, and inform preparation for STEM jobs or industries of the future while building the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics skills and practices that will be needed for these jobs. Proposals are expected to provide opportunities for broadening participation in STEM by increasing participation of groups that have historically been underrepresented in STEM fields - including women, African Americans, Hispanics, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, Native Pacific Islanders, and persons with disabilities. As appropriate, proposals may address curricula, educational approaches, educator professional development, formal and informal education, educational ecosystems, as well as the needs of other stakeholders such as industry professionals and professional societies.
General questions about this DCL should be directed to Tomasz Durakiewicz, tdurakie@nsf.gov, or Wu He, wuhe@nsf.gov. Program-specific questions about this DCL should be directed to the cognizant program directors for the programs listed below.
Deadlines: Review the programs listed on the webpage linked here and click on each program for their program-specific deadline.
